English Words: F

A sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact.

Flooding that occurs during a flash flood.

Pertaining to a scam where a motorist flashes their headlights to indicate to another driver to proceed against normal give-way rules, then runs into them and sues for damages.

To move forward in time.

A flashbang.

A brothel.

A transient occurrence with no long-term impact.

A simple single-gate lock on a river or canal.

plural of flash lock

A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.

A package printed with a special discount offer on it.

A small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns.

Taking photographs using a camera with a flash.

The lowest temperature at which a liquid can form an ignitable mixture in air near the surface of the liquid.

A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

A bundle of banknotes used by undercover law enforcement to convince a criminal that they want to go ahead with an illegal transaction.

A sale of merchandise where the prices are greatly reduced, but lasting for only a short period of time.

To give somebody a cigarette.

To appear suddenly on a screen.

A form of handgun that fires projectiles of rubber or similar material, used mainly by law enforcement officers for riot control.

A hand grenade that produces a very bright flash and a loud explosion, but no shrapnel and minimal explosive force, to disorient the target.

Capable of being flashed (having its memory rewritten).

A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

A kind of flash unit for a camera, in the form of a horizontal bar.

A board placed temporarily upon a dam, river, stream, etc. (typically within a permanent frame) to raise the water above its usual level.

Made with flashboard.

A glass bulb that made a single bright flash for illumination during a photograph.

A memory of a significant and extremely emotional moment or event.

Alternative form of flash burn

A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation.

plural of flashcard

an electronic music style that grew out of speedcore and industrial hardcore, characterized by wandering soundscapes, scattered rapid short-duration sounds, complex avant-garde structures and abstract sounds.

The large number of people brought by the sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.

A mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen that is found in mines, and ignited quickly within a safety lamp, but that is then extinguished quickly due to the exhaust products of the flame. Flashdamp can be heavier than air (called heavy flashdamp) or lighter than air (called light flashdamp), depending on the proportion of carbon dioxide.

simple past and past participle of flash

Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.

Flash fiction.

A sudden, intense fire caused by the ignition of flammable substances in the air.

A dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

An electrically powered device used to trigger a flashbulb.

In a flashy manner

The quality of being flashy.

A sudden blazing or bursting, as of fire or water.

With a flashing appearance.

A kind of lamp that uses an electric current to start powder burning and produce a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was formerly used in flash photography.

Not fitted with a flash.

In a flashless manner; without flash.

Absence of a flash.

A Flash animation

A battery-powered hand-held light source.